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OUTLOOK
Moisture will gradually increase from the south through Thursday ahead of a cold front approaching from the west. The front will cross the area Thursday night, ushering in cooler high pressure Friday and throughout much of the weekend. A reinforcing cold front with limited moisture will cross the region Sunday night, with dry high pressure returning for the early to middle part of next week.
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Local and State News
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 10, 2021]
W Main Street and W Palmer St Christmas Light Installation
It's that time of year again...
Please be on the lookout for town crews over the next week or so as they work to get Franklin ready for the Christmas season.
• Town of Franklin, NC to Honor Veterans Today [MaconMedia.com]
• Highlands signs contract with Hotwire Communications to manage fiber highway [Plateau Daily News]
• Macon County Board of Commissioners - November 2021 Meeting Agenda and Webcast [MaconMedia.com]
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Local Weather
National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Thursday Night
Franklin area
Today
A chance of rain, mainly between 9am and 11am, then a chance of showers after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph by noon. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers, mainly before midnight. Patchy fog. Lows around 40. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 7 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-30s. Calm winds early in the evening increasing to come out of the west around 5 mph after midnight.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 50.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 20s.
Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of rain before 10am, then showers likely after 10am. Patchy fog after 11am. Otherwise, cloudy, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers, mainly before midnight. Patchy fog before midnight. Lows around 40. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-30s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-40s.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-20s.
Otto area
Today
A chance of rain, mainly between 8am and 11am, then a chance of showers after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs near 60. Calm winds in the morning southeast around 5 mph by noon. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers, mainly before midnight. Patchy fog. Lows around 40. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Winds out of the northwest 3 to 6 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-30s. Winds out of the west 3 to 6 mph.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 50.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the upper 20s.
Nantahala area
Today
A slight chance of rain between 9am and 11am, then showers likely after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Showers, mainly before 10pm. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows around 40. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-30s. Winds out of the southwest around 5 mph.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-40s.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 30.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
100 AM EST Thu Nov 11 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A storm-force non-tropical area of low pressure located about 900 miles east-northeast of Bermuda continues to produce a large area of showers that extend from the center northward along an associated frontal boundary. This system is moving northeastward, and it could still become a short-lived subtropical storm before it reaches cooler waters by this evening. By this weekend, the system is expected to be absorbed by a larger non-tropical low. Additional information on this system, including hurricane-force wind warnings, can be found in High Seas forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent.
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Almanac
Air Quality
Air quality is in the lower range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the middle range of green.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There is haze from the wildfires out on the west coast.)
Air quality in Macon County is expected to be degraded today, especially on the Highlands Plateau, until rain moves in later today. Those with breathing issues may want to limit the time spent outsdoors today.
Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.3 out of 12) today with Ragweed and Chenopods being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (0.3 out of 12).
Record Weather Events for November 11th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)
Highest Temperature 80°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 2006
Lowest Temperature 0°F in Nantahala in 1950
Greatest One-Day Rainfall 2.88 inches in Highlands in 1998 Greatest One-Day Snowfall 2.0 inches in Highlands in 1968
Record Weather Events for November (1872-2017)
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on Nov 4, 2003
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands on Nov 25, 1950
Greatest Rainfall 4.69 inches in Highlands on Nov 29, 1914
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands on Nov 28, 1922
Record Weather Events for November 1st in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Maysville, Onslow County in 2009
Lowest Temperature 12°F in Banner Elk, Avery County in 1913
Greatest Rainfall 5.08 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County in 1969
Greatest Snowfall 13.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2014
Record Weather Events for November in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 90°F in Goldsboro, Wayne County on 11-09-1900
Lowest Temperature -19°F in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-25-1950
Greatest Rainfall 8.15 inches in Idlewild, Ashe County on 11-06-1977
Greatest Snowfall 18.00 in Montreat, Yancey County on 11-04-1930
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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)
Veterans Day in Franklin
The Town of Franklin will host the annual Veterans Day parade and ceremony on Thursday, November 11th. Veterans will assemble in the town hall parking lot at 10am and the parade starts at 10:30am. The route will be from the town hall to the town gazebo, where a short ceremony will occur. Details are at [MaconMedia.com]
THE POLAR EXPRESS™ Train Ride
THE POLAR EXPRESS™ with the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad is back in 2021! The 1¼ hour round-trip passenger excursion comes to life as the train departs the Bryson City depot for a journey through the quiet wilderness for a special visit at the North Pole. Set to the sounds of the motion picture soundtrack, guests on board will enjoy warm cocoa and a treat while listening and reading along with the magical story. Children’s faces show the magic of the season when the train arrives at the North Pole to find Santa Claus waiting. Santa will board THE POLAR EXPRESS™, greeting each child and presenting them with a special gift as in the story, their own silver sleigh bell. Christmas carols will be sung as they return back to the Bryson City Depot. For ticksts, see [GSMR.com]
COLD Turkey 5K & Little Turkeys Fun Run (ALL AGES) 2021
This year's Cold Turkey will be a benefit for Macon County Special Olympics
Gobble! Gobble! Join others for Franklin, NC's annual Cold Turkey 5K Run/Walk & Little Turkeys FUN! Run/Walk on THANKSGIVING DAY (2021)
Race day registration begins at 8:00AM
Little Turkeys FUN! Run/Walk (10-U) starts at 9AM
Cold Turkey 5K starts at 9:30AM
Dillsboro Lights & Luminaries
Adapted from an old Scandinavian custom of lighting the way for the Christ child, more than 2,500 candles in small white bags line the streets and every storefront is aglow with Christmas lights and decorations. Shopkeepers and restaurants are open late. See Santa and Mrs. Claus as they ride through town in their pickup truck. Write a letter to Santa and drop it off at his special mailbox. Live music on Front Street. For more information, see [Visit Dillsboro]
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National and World News Roundup
SpaceX launches Crew-3 astronauts to space station, nails booster landing
On Wednesday, November 10th at 9:03 p.m. EST, SpaceX and NASA launched Dragon’s third long-duration operational crew mission (Crew-3) to the International Space Station from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “A Shortfall of Gravitas” droneship.
On Thursday, November 11 at approximately 7:10 p.m. EST, 00:10 UTC on November 12, Dragon will autonomously dock with the space station.
SpaceX Videos: | Launch | Coast & Rendezvous | Approach & Docking
Bushcraft Bear Reports From La Palma (11-10-2021)
• Ex-MMA Fighter Gets 41 Months in 1st Sentence for Capitol Riot Violence [WRC-TV]
• Federal judge rules Texas school mask ban violates Americans with Disabilities Act [CNN]
• Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to bar psychologist from testifying at sex crimes trial [Reuters]
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast - November 10th, 2021
PBS NewsHour Weekend Full Episode November 10th, 2021
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COVID-19 News and Updates
Since it looks like we may be in for a new wave of infections, here is a section on COVID-19. It will include local, regional, state, national, and global items.
COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County: [November 10, 2021]
• Newsmax reporter permanently banned from Twitter for posting Covid misinformation [CNN]
• France experiencing start of fifth wave of COVID epidemic [Reuters]
Dr John Campbell: Highly effective new antiviral
• How protein-based COVID vaccines could change the pandemic [Nature]
• FEMA Offers COVID-19 Funeral Assistance [FEMA]
• Federal judge overrules Texas ban on mask mandates in schools [Washington Post]
• Texas Data Shows Unvaccinated People 20 times More Likely to Die From COVID-19 [Texas Department of State Health Services]
• Young Adults Have Lowest Antibody Levels After COVID-19 Infection, Suggesting Vaccination Still Key [UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh]
TWiV 826: COVID-19 clinical update #87 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #87, Dr. Griffin reviews PCR cycle threshold and RNA copy number, rapid antigen tests, hospitalization rate after infection or vaccination, allergies and vaccination, community transmission and viral RNA load, early treatment with sotrovimab, meta-analysis of tocilizumab treatment, antibiotic overuse, and guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis.
Show notes at [https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-826/]
TWiV 827: A shot to save the world with Greg Zuckerman
• A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine [Amazon (Link to Kindle Edition)]
Show notes at [https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-827/]
• COVID-Vaccine Mandates for Kids Are Coming [The Atlantic]
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On This Day
November 11th is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 50 days remain until the end of the year.
This day marks the approximate midpoint of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and of spring in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the September equinox).
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.
1028 – Constantine VIII died, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.
1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned in the same day.
1215 – The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
1500 – Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
1572 – Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.
1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
• [Wikipedia: Mayflower Compact]
• [PBS: American Experience]
• [The Mayflower Compact: 1620 and the Formation of the American Republic]
1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
1750 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
1778 – Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
• [Wikipedia: Cherry Valley massacre]
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
• [Wikipedia: Nat Turner's slave rebellion]
• [National Geographic Explorer]
• [Nat Turner & The Rebellion That Shook the South]
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
1887 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland – symbolic first day of Polish independence.
1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
1919 – The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.
1919 – Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1923 – Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
• [Wikipedia: Einstein refrigerator]
• [Einstein's Fridge]
• [Einstein's green refrigerator making a comeback]
1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
1940 – World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.
1942 – World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.
1960 – A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
1961 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1965 – Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.
1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
1975 – Independence of Angola.
1977 – A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
2000 – Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
2002 – A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.
2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2006 – Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
2011 - A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills 7, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.
2012 – A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
2014 – Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.
2020 – Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands. The storm caused the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009 and killed 67 people.
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, November 11, 2021
Author: Bobby Coggins
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